Most of our work is completed on the Texas A&M University Campus in College Station, Texas, but across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife has faculty located at nine modern, well-equipped regional centers located in major agricultural areas in the state that enable our scientists and students to carry out research.
Kleberg Animal & Food Sciences Center
The Kleberg Animal and Food Sciences Center is a five-story building that houses faculty and staff in the Departments of Animal Science, Nutrition, Food Science and Poultry Science. It is equipped with modern laboratories, office spaces, comfortable lecture facilities, classrooms, conference rooms, and student study areas.
Kleberg Animal and Food Sciences Center
474 Olsen Blvd.
College Station, Texas 77845
O. D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex (ASTREC)
The O.D. Butler, Jr. Animal Complex is a 580-acre complex devoted to teaching, research, and extension in animal science. It is comprised of five unique facilities, each dedicated to their respective research areas.
O.D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex
7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Hwy 60)
College Station, Texas 77845
Contact: Kenton Kruger
979-862-7554
[email protected]
Texas A&M Sheep and Goat Center
The Texas A&M Sheep & Goat Center offers a diverse array of opportunities and information for producers, students, and any persons involved with the sheep and goat industry.
Texas A&M University Sheep & Goat Center
7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Hwy 60)
College Station, Texas 77845
Contact: Allen McElroy
[email protected]
Texas A&M Beef Center
The Texas A&M Beef Center is dedicated to building on a long standing tradition of excellence that has been going on for over 50 years. Students, educators, and industry professionals are working toward the goal of improving industry access to teaching, research and extension activities.
Texas A&M University Beef Center
7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Hwy 60)
College Station, Texas 77845
Contact: Scott McElfresh
[email protected]
Animal Nutrition and Physiology Center Facilities
The Nutrition and Physiology Center is located on approximately 45 acres of the O.D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex. The center includes a large animal main laboratory building, individual animal feeding/handling facilities, group animal management areas, and a diet storage/handling facility.
Animal Nutrition and Physiology Center
7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Hwy 60)
College Station, Texas 77845
Contact: Julie Kellerman
[email protected]
Louis Pearce Pavilion
The Louis Pearce Pavilion is used to support teaching and extension activities, including judging contests, youth camps, clinics, livestock competitions, and other events. This air-conditioned facility features one small classroom, the TAMU Wool and Mohair Evaluation Lab, a dirt arena, and covered livestock pens.
Louis Pearce Pavilion
555 George Bush Drive West
College Station, Texas 77840
Contact: Dr. Shawn Ramsey
979-314-8525
[email protected]
Freeman Arena
Freeman Arena is a 200 x 350 foot, covered arena devoted to equine teaching, extension programs, horse shows, rodeos, cutting contests, and many other activities as a part of the 65-acre Equestrian Center.
Freeman Arena
7802 Turkey Creek Road
College Station, Texas 77845
Contact: Krissy Schroeder
979-845-4320
[email protected]
Thomas G. Hildebrand, DVM ’56 Equine Complex
The Thomas G. Hildebrand, DVM ’56 Equine Complex is a state-of-the-art facility which provides a new, on-campus home for equine teaching, research, outreach and athletic programming.
Thomas G. Hildebrand, DVM ’56 Equine Complex
3240 F&B Road
College Station, TX 77843
Contact: Nikki Marchant
979-458-9167
[email protected]
Rosenthal Meat Science and Technology Center
The Rosenthal Meat Science and Technology Center includes a retail meat sales store, a multi-species harvesting facility including receiving and holding pens, four large meat coolers, a carcass/fabrication cutting room, a processed meat manufacturing room, a research room, three smokehouses, and fresh and cooked meat packaging area.
Rosenthal Meat Science & Technology Center
488 Olsen Blvd
College Station, Texas 77843
Contact: Ray Riley
979-845-5651
[email protected]
McGregor Research Center
The McGregor Research Center currently encompasses 6,372 acres of native and introduced pastureland in central Texas. The center has 10 full-time employees, two part-time maintenance employees, and three to six seasonal student employees. The McGregor Center runs approximately 1,000 breeding females and 60+ herd bulls, a feed yard facility with 1,200 head feeding capacity, a 300 head individual feed intake facility, and farms approximately 1,500 acres of row crop (corn & sorghum sudan) and small grains (wheat & oats).
McGregor Research Center
Contact: Dr. Ryon Walker
254-840-2878
[email protected]
Equine Nutrition Research and Reproductive Teaching Center
The Equine Nutrition Research and Reproductive Teaching Center is a state-of-the art research and teaching facility that has positioned the Department of Animal Science as the leader in teaching and research efforts in equine science. The center offers hands-on research opportunities and high-impact learning experiences that take undergraduate and graduate students beyond the classroom.
Home to 76 head of American Quarter Horses, the center uses stallions, broodmares, foals, and young riding horses for teaching, research, and extension programs. Students are taught basic animal husbandry and handling, young horse development and ground training, and learn the latest advances and technologies in the world of equine reproduction and nutrition in the new, cutting-edge lab facilities.
Equine Nutrition and Reproductive Teaching Center
3190 F&B Rd
College Station, TX 77843
Contact: Krissy Schroeder
979-966-8826
[email protected]
G. Rollie White Visitor Center
The G. Rollie White Visitor Center serves as the main office of the O. D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex. The Center serves as a meeting place for seminars, conferences, meetings, extension programs, social functions, and many other activities.
G. Rollie White Visitor Center
7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Hwy 60)
College Station, Texas 77845.
Contact: Nikki Marchant
979-314-8531
[email protected]
Swine Center
The Texas A&M Swine Center is a research and teaching facility that provides hands-on opportunities for students and faculty. It is comprised of approximately a 50 breeding sow base herd and focuses on all phases of pork production including breeding, gestation, farrowing, growing and finishing. Our facility generates animals that are utilized in a variety of student and scientist led research projects and provides a wide range of opportunities and information for those associated with the swine industry.
Swine Center
7707 Raymond Stotzer Parkway (Hwy 60)
College Station, Texas 77845.
Contact: Ed Savage
[email protected]
Beef Cattle Systems
Beef Cattle systems is an 800-acre cattle ranch located in the Brazos river bottomland in Burleson county. Several different perennial forage types are planted on the site as well as some planted winter annuals for use in forage/grazing studies. Beef Cattle Systems maintains a standing cow herd of 200 commercial cows that calve in the spring and are used for research and teaching purposes and the facility typically grazes around 200-head of yearlings on the planted annual forages for the winter. There are also 12 feed lot pens as well as 4 pens with a grow safe data collection system for feeding cattle through the finishing stage of production. The facility is used mostly for research although occasionally beef cattle production classes come and participate in some routine cattle management practices such as calf processing.
Beef Cattle Systems
Contact: Kendall Daniels
[email protected]
Sensory Testing Facilities
The Sensory Testing facilities include food service and consumer cooking systems, 24 sensory booths with white or colored lighting, separate testing and preparation facilities, a walk-in cooler and freezer, a Food Texture Analyzer system used across multiple food products, and testing capabilities for trained and consumer sensory methods. An expert, descriptive aroma, color, flavor, and texture panel has been maintained in this facility for over 35 years.
Sensory Testing Facilities
Contact: Dr. Rhonda Miller
[email protected]